AC7 - Creative Arts Therapies and the Climate Crisis: A Framework for Intentional Engagement
Recorded On: 10/26/2025
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Description:
A brief overview of IFS illustrated by case material will demonstrate how the
IFS-trained art therapist presenter integrates art into the IFS process for
trauma treatment, anchored by Jungian Active Imagination. Participants untrained
in IFS may better utilize Active Imagination into art-making. IFS-trained
participants will gain creative tools.
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will be able to define 3 or more basic principles of the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model of
treatment.
- Participants will be able to clarify 3 or more ways that IFS and Active Imagination overlap to enhance the
art therapy process.
- Participants will be able to describe 4 art directives that integrate with the IFS model of the 6 F’s.
Session is worth 1 CE Credit
Heather McLaughlin
MA, ATR-BC, RMFT-S
Heather McLaughlin, MA, ATR-BC, RMFT-S, is an art therapist with over 20 years’ experience specializing in relational and trauma work. She is also a registered couple and family therapist, licensed psychotherapist, and clinical supervisor. An assistant professor and program coordinator for Concordia University’s Art Therapy program, she is the founder and Director of the Concordia Arts in Health Centre which is a service-first, campus-based creative arts therapies clinic offering free, equitable, and accessible therapy. Her work focuses on creative and systemic approaches to community care and climate action, with an emphasis on supporting and connecting community initiatives, mobilizing resources, and engaging in research that strengthens these efforts.
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